Current Events > How do you shoot someone. Take a selfie of him dying. And get 3rd degree murder?

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HOW??

https://www.yahoo.com/news/shot-son-then-took-selfie-120032240.html

One part of George Mangan Jr.’s home has remained almost unchanged for more than two years: the bedroom of his 16-year-old son, Ryan Mangan, who was shot and killed by another teenager in February 2015.

The case made national headlines — not for how Ryan died but because of what the other teen, Maxwell Morton, did afterward: snapping a smiling self-portrait in front of Ryan, slumped and bleeding, after he had been shot.

Morton, who was also 16 at the time, then fled the scene with the gun, leaving Ryan dying as his lungs filled with blood. Morton later sent his selfie to a friend online. He did not call for help.

In May, Morton was sentenced to at least 15 years in prison on a third-degree murder charge for killing Ryan, with his photo at the scene used as key evidence against him. Morton was tried as an adult and convicted days after the two-year anniversary of Ryan’s death.

How the HELL is that 3rd Degree murder?! That's bullshit!
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you think he deserved more of a sentence? i think so should be much longer than 15 years.

life in prison.
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kingdrake2 posted...

you think he deserved more of a sentence? i think so should be much longer than 15 years.

life in prison.

Life is what I expected for scum like this
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that's right.
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smh
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I was told by some liberals on CE once that people of color always get very unfair (long) sentences.
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Capn Circus posted...

I was told by some liberals on CE once that people of color always get very unfair (long) sentences.

There are statistics that show this.

it's poor people that get longer sentences, they just usually end up being a minority more often than a white person
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30 years in prison would have been fair.
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thronedfire2 posted...

it's poor people that get longer sentences, they just usually end up being a minority more often than a white person

What if poor minorities more often than not get longer sentences than poor whites then what was the point of this post?
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I see nothing wrong with this.
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B8ter posted...

I see nothing wrong with this.

.... How?
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White privilege
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Medz2017 posted...

White privilege

People will deny that
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Probably because of his age and the possibility that there was no premeditation. What you do afterwards generally won't affect your actual state of mind at the time of the crime. But that's what people are punished based on. It can be evidence of your state of mind, but it's not a substitute for premeditation or felony murder or anything.

While this was extremely messed up, that's the law. He claimed it was an accident so he didn't clearly have the necessary intent for a higher charge. This kid was already tried as an adult and got 15 years, it's not like he got off. He's still a murderer. And it's obviously fine to think he should have gotten a higher charge and sentence or that the selfie was strong evidence of premeditation. This "so much for white privilege" angle is pure trolling though.
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legendary_zell posted...

Probably because of his age and the possibility that there was no premeditation. What you do afterwards generally won't affect your actual state of mind at the time of the crime. But that's what people are punished based on. It can be evidence of your state of mind, but it's not a substitute for premeditation or felony murder or anything.

While this was extremely messed up, that's the law. He claimed it was an accident so he didn't clearly have the necessary intent for a higher charge. This kid was already tried as an adult and got 15 years, it's not like he got off. He's still a murderer. And it's obviously fine to think he should have gotten a higher charge and sentence or that the selfie was strong evidence of premeditation. This "so much for white privilege" angle is pure trolling though.

Him not helping when he's dying is also clear as day negligence if it's only manslaughter.